Eventually, any consciousness system descriptor set
needs to deal with moral and ethical issues. Existing ethical and
moral systems may be insufficiently inclusive just as are the
consciousness models in which they were formed. In particular,
reliance on a few expressed specific proscriptions such as "thou shalt
not kill" is only useful to a point. Typical exclusive moral and
ethical systems may allow for an excess of hypocrisy, "sins of
omission", and unfortunately so forth. While Open Mystic
proposes a fully inclusive consciousness model, the appropriate
concomitant moral and ethical systems may be difficult to construct.

In section 35 it was proposed
that the ordinary Universe may exist solely as a cosmic laboratory where
an infinite variety of changes dynamically arise and thereby create
problems requiring solutions by the impacted sentient beings. In
this light it has been proposed on several Open Mystic pages that the
certain path to a life of endless pleasure is to declare that problem
solving will be one's highest pleasure. Arguably, it may be a way to
stay with or possibly ahead of the game, so to speak. The trait of
curiosity is a helper to this proposed lifestyle design.
Inevitably, everyone will face endless "problems" through a lifetime.
"Hunting" for solutions to these problems may be archetypal behavior and
thus innately satisfying to the graced person who has realized that
problem solving behavior is the highest pleasure.

Some
persons are paid to deliberately create problems for others. These
persons are professional educators of one type or another - college
professor, guitar teacher, etc. Educators are a positive and
accepted force for temporal aperture expansion.

Beyond the formal educator role scenarios, there is an infinite spray of
accidental, unintentional, deliberate problems created by and for other
sentient beings to solve. Generally speaking, many of these
problem solving scenarios lead to the strengthening of the affected
creatures in the long run. Human beings could not exist as such
without an enormous flood of experiences over time that were stressful
and threatening. A "paradise" as generally imagined would over the
long run destroy every living creature therein. The conundrum
dissolves however if one were to declare that problem solving behavior
is the highest pleasure. This is the pathway to fashioning
everyday existence as "paradise on Earth".

Assuming that
problem solving is declared the highest pleasure, then what problems can
we ethically and morally create in our every day lives for other persons
and sentient beings to solve? What criteria should be used to decide?
This is the core moral issue in the Open Mystic temporal aperture
consciousness model. What really matters?

If I rob a person on the street,
could that be construed as an ethical act since the victim may acquire a
variety of new knowledge from the experience - "street knowledge".
I have created a problem for the victim with numerous potential follow-up solutions. If problem solving is such a high pleasure, then the
robbery victim should be ecstatic over this chance opportunity? No? And
so forth....

Pending resolution of this important
issue, Open Mystic visitors should continue to use whatever moral and
ethical systems have served them up to now!

Our "problem solving as highest pleasure" proposal opens the door for
rich discussion of ethics and morality. This section 45 will be
continuously updated through the life of the Open Mystic website since
it comprises one of the most significant discussions.